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January 3, 2008

Chanel's Blue Satin Nail Polish

I have been so busy with work and life in general, that stopping to get a manicure has been impossible.

But here is something that will probably get me to a nail salon very soon: Chanel's Blue Satin Nail Polish.

This color is plastered on every magazine and on every other beauty blog! And my will power has been fighting for too long and is now defeated: I want one.

But here comes the tricky part.

See, a Chanel's nail polish is kind of expensive to begin with, at $19 a pop. But this color is now sold out, and the vultures are out on eBay selling it even for $50, which is ridiculous!

Is it possible that Chanel is the only brand that can produce this color? I've seen blue nail polish in the past, but most of the time it was unwearable. But maybe now, after the blue satin phenomenon, we might be able to find something very similar in another brand, and that won't cost us a fortune.

This one from OPI looks like it could be a close match.

It's called DS Fantasy.

The closest one from Essie is Aruba Blue.

And the closest thing at the local drugs store is Revlon in Midnight Affair.

Unfortunately, the only way to compare these colors to the original I am lusting after is to try them all, including the blue satin, which means going out and buying the blue satin anyway, which means I've just defeated the purpose of this whole post... oh well... who am I to argue logic?.

If you *really* want to I can see if my store has any left tomorrow (probably the last time I'll get to the store before I leave), I'll be in NYC 1/10 & 1/11 or can mail. let me know via email if you're interested...take care, Delphine

You can actually still find it on Neiman Marcus's website! http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prodChanel.jhtml?productID=MANPR010&itemId=cat11510731&parentId=cat000294&masterId=cat4830738&cmCat=&icid=&ecid=&ECID=NMAPRshefindsBest, Jamie

Ladies before you run out and buy this color (I have it) please understand that this shade of blue is DARK and to me looks exactly like black satin. It does not look as blue in person as it does online. If I knew this I would not have bought it. I'm very disappointed. I thought it would be more blue-er but on my hands it looks black and I am fair skinned.

so this is probably really tacky of me, but i got a pretty close match to the Chanel with cheap-o $1 N.Y.C. brand polish in 115A "Skin Tight Denim Creme" that I got at Target. hard to beat $1 if you can't get your hands on the real thing!

I agree great blog!I tried the blue satin on in Cusp (a local boutique here in the DC area that's an offshoot of Neiman Marcus) and didn't like it that much. One of the sales girls suggested Lippman's Nail color in Rehab. It's a sheer blue and that makes it a little more wearable. I really like it. Just a thought.

In Australia, Chanel nail colour is $37 per bottle, so I only allow myself one bottle of Chanel per season--and this season was Rouge Noir. Had a look at Blue Satin but decided OPI's Russian Navy was more what I wanted--and I love it. It's a true indigo. OPI has another shade in their 'India' collection called 'Yoga-ta-get-this' or something like that; it looked a bit brighter.

I was lucky a friend of mine gave me this polish today as a gift she is a fashion intern and was raving about it I dont like it very much i am african american and dont think it looks nice with my brown/yellow underton skin guess i will sell the bottle on ebay